Growing Taller !!!

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hi i recently turned 21, i'd say i'm slightly above average height. I am looking to grow taller and have heard about certain stretching excercises or specific types of exercise (swimming cycling etc) can help produce growth hormones in the body, need to know if it's true and if anyone knows of a programme to follow, would be much appreciated. Or even certain types of food, my brother ate a lot of cereals and bananas during pubity and absolutely shot up in height.

i understand at my age im probably fully grown but i have two younger brothers one whose much taller (19) and one who's just about caught up (15) it just seems odd as i'm the most athletic and healthy living of the 3 of us

my guess would be "no".

seriously, if there was a way to enhance height i think a lot more people would be on that and it would be pretty out in the open.

a poor nutrition can stunt height, but i don't think there is any food you can eat/any exercise you can do that will actually make you taller.

I wish I could remember where I heard it (read it) but it seems that height is genetic. There is a predetermined maximum height. (Of course there are things like growth hormones not shutting off and things like that which may affect the predetermination).But amongst us healthy folks, you just get what you get. If you were well nourished and healthy as a kid, your probably at your predetermined height.

Hi Samuel, your brother shot up in height during puberty (as you probably did) because at puberty testosterone levels increase and this stimulates bone growth at the growth plates.However, testosterone also, more slowly, sets in place a mechanism by which the growth plates fuse. When this happens, no more growth is possible.If you have an early puberty growth spurt, the plates also fuse early, possibly even in early teens. Because there has been less pre-puberty growth, such people usually end up a little shorter than average. That happened to me.On the other hand there are people who are still growing in their early twenties. Most typically guys reach their adult height around 17.If you haven't grown in the last year, it's likely your growth plates have fused and you are at your adult height.

to be fair i did grow a bit about 6 or so months ago, i was shorter than my mate , when he came back from uni i was taller (a couple of months) unless he shrunk